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Ultrathin ZnIn2S4 Nanosheets Supported Metallic Ni3FeN for Photocatalytic Coupled Selective Alcohol Oxidation and H2 Evolution

Mengqing Li, Weiliang Qi, Jiuyang Yu, Lijuan Shen, Xuhui Yang, Siqi Liu* and Min-Quan Yang*

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The Structural and Chemical Reactivity of Lattice Oxygens on β-PbO2 EOP Electrocatalysts

Wenwen Li, Ge Feng, Jia Liu, Xing Zhong, Zihao Yao, Shengwei Deng, Shibin Wang* and Jianguo Wang

Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2212051-2212059  DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0153

December 2, 2022

oxygen vacancy effect, electrochemical ozone production, lattice oxygen mechanism, density functional theory

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The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and electrochemical ozone production (EOP) attracted considerable attention due to their wide applications in electrocatalysis, but the detailed reaction mechanism of product formation as well as the voltage effect on O2/O3 formation still remains unclear. In this work, the density functional theory calculations were used to systematically investigate the possible reaction mechanisms of OER and EOP on the PbO2 (110) surface, with the possible reaction network involving surface lattice oxygen atoms (LOM) proposed. The results show that the LOM-2 reaction pathway involving two surface lattice oxygen atoms (Olatt) and one oxygen atom from H2O was the most thermodynamically reactive. Different potential determining step (PDS) was obtained depending on the multiple reaction pathway, and the results show that the facile diffusion of Olatt would proceed the LOM pathway and promote the formation of surface oxygen vacancies (Ovac1/Ovac2). Furthermore, Ovac1/Ovac2 formation on the surface would trigger further reactions of H2O adsorption and splitting, which refilled the oxygen vacancy and ensured the considerable stability of the PbO2 (110) surface. Multiple H2O dissociation pathways were proposed on PbO2 (110) with oxygen vacancy sites: the acid-base interaction mechanism and the vacancy fulfilling mechanism.



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